North Korea have blown up roads and rail links to South Korea in their own country affectively turning themselves into “a fortress.”
Local time around midday on Tuesday the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) told reporters that Kin Jong-un ordered for the roads and rail lines to be blown up.
“The North Korean military conducted detonations, assumed to be aimed at cutting off the Gyeongui and Donghae roads, at around noon and is carrying out additional activities using heavy equipment,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Tuesday.
“The military is closely monitoring the North Korean military’s activities and maintains a firm readiness posture amid strengthened surveillance under South Korea-U.S. cooperation.”
🇰🇵🇰🇷North Korea blew up parts of the Gyeongui Line and Donghae Line, which connect the two Koreas, around 12:00 p.m. local time, just north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), according to the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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The Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman added “it is unlikely that the North may stage another ‘show’” of explosions.
“Blowing up the inter-Korean roads may be its final act as it has already destroyed other visible signs of inter-Korean cooperation, such as the inter-Korean joint liaison office,” the official said.
South Korea said that North Korea is “repeatedly conducting such regressive behaviour.”
Pyongyang has accused Soeul of launching drones over the North Korean capital three times this month and they were dropping propaganda leaflets.
North Korea has placed eight artillery units on the border “on standby to open fire” and warned there will be a “horrible disaster” if the drones are launched again.
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